Qualla: Exposure https://qualla.com/exposure-sculpture en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:33 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/7/f/exposure-sculpture-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Exposure https://qualla.com/exposure-sculpture Exposure: Introduction https://qualla.com/exposure-sculpture/ Photo credit Nanda Sluijsmans from Den Haag, Nederland, CC BY-SA 2.0. Drive east out of Lelystad onto the Houtribdijk and the first thing you see is a man squatting at the shore, looking out across the IJsselmeer. He is roughly the height of an eight-story building. He is made entirely of steel girders, lashed together with bolts, so that from a distance he reads as solid and from close up he is mostly air. He has been there since September 2010, holding the same pose without flinching, and people who live nearby have stopped finding him strange.

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Image: Nanda Sluijsmans from Den Haag, Nederland | CC BY-SA 2.0

]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/7/f/exposure-sculpture-wp/u17f-exposure-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Exposure: The Sculptor Comes North https://qualla.com/exposure-sculpture/ Photo credit RoMaVo, CC0. Antony Gormley has spent most of his career working through one essential subject: the human body, his own body specifically, as a way of measuring the space around it. The Angel of the North in Gateshead, the cast-iron figures of Another Place wading into the tide at Crosby Beac...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/7/f/exposure-sculpture-wp/u17f-exposure-the-sculptor-comes-north.mp3 0:06 2 full Exposure: Why Flevoland https://qualla.com/exposure-sculpture/ Photo credit Wauteurz, CC BY-SA 4.0. Flevoland is the youngest province in the Netherlands and one of the most deliberately built landscapes on Earth. It did not exist as land until the 20th century. The Zuiderzee Works drained huge sections of the inland sea between the 1930s and the 1960s, producing polders where ...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/7/f/exposure-sculpture-wp/u17f-exposure-why-flevoland.mp3 0:06 3 full Exposure: Built Like a Bridge https://qualla.com/exposure-sculpture/ Photo credit Txllxt TxllxT, CC BY-SA 4.0. The numbers are the kind that engineering firms talk about more than artists do. The figure stands 25.64 meters tall - roughly 84 feet - and weighs 60 tonnes. It is made of 5,468 individual pieces of galvanized steel, varying in length and cross-section, joined at 547 nodes by ap...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/7/f/exposure-sculpture-wp/u17f-exposure-built-like-a-bridge.mp3 0:06 4 full Exposure: A Pose with a Purpose https://qualla.com/exposure-sculpture/ Photo credit Nadezda NL, CC BY-SA 4.0. The crouch is unhurried, contemplative, with the elbows on the knees and the head lifted to look out across the water. Locals quickly gave the work a less reverent nickname - de Poepende Man, the Squatting or Defecating Man - and the joke has stuck without seeming to bother Gorml...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/7/f/exposure-sculpture-wp/u17f-exposure-a-pose-with-a-purpose.mp3 0:06 5 full Exposure: Weathering In https://qualla.com/exposure-sculpture/ Photo credit GerardM, CC BY-SA 3.0. Gormley has said openly that the work is meant to react over time. Galvanized steel does not stay bright; it weathers, dulls, and acquires the slow gray of structures that live outside. The bolts loosen and are checked. Birds nest in the figure. Algae and lichen colonize the lowe...

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